Before you start developing applications on MapR’s Converged Data Platform, consider how you will get the data onto the
platform, the format it will be stored in, the type of processing or modeling that is required, and how the data will
be accessed.

The mapr dbshell is a tool that enables you to create and perform basic manipulation of JSON tables and documents. You
run dbshell by typing mapr dbshell on the command line after logging into a node in a MapR cluster.